Re: IMHO, SGE1 - Milestone
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posted on
Oct 30, 2009 03:31PM
Understood, but what concerns me more is product marketability, and whether we're equipped, realistically, to pursue that market. This concern comes from experience (that others here have shared) where a small player (e.g., PTSC, EDIG) have a great product at the leading edge of the technology curve, and are completely unable to sell it, either because of complete ineptitude or lack of marketing power. Now, marketing power (i.e., money) isn't the issue here. The other thing is. Maybe Baroni and company can pull this off. But another assessment from a pure business perspective - without the assessor having a vested interest (of becoming the marketeer) - would be beneficial, and perhaps avoid dumping MMP money into something where we simply don't have the market recognition to enable success. Sometimes the smartest move is to develop something valueable and sell it, for good profit (and perhaps an ongoing equity interest) to an entity that is capable of securing market attention (e.g., HP or an HP competitor in this space). Is Baroni and company looking purely at how to push this thing (probably), or also assessing its (potential) value with an eye on selling the business(es) to a bigger, recognized player (unknown, but I suspect not)? IMO, both sides of this coin should be examined.
JMHO,
SGE